Self loves museums. This was the first time she was in the newly rebuilt de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. She was with son and The Man.

The front courtyard of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, Sometime 2011

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The Bacolod odyssey began with this visit, December 2010. She passed by Bacolod on her way back from the PEN Conference in Cebu, where she discovered Simeon Dumdum, Jr. and struck up friendships with Susan Lara and Danilo Reyes.

Sunday Mass in Talisay (A young boy squats by the door)

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Earlier this year, self joined Margarita Donnelly in Venice. The trip was Margarita’s brainchild. Raised in Venezuela, and unable to return there, Margarita opted for the next best thing, the city Venezuela was named after. Self took two days off to go exploring on her own, and wound up in Trieste, near the border with Slovenia.